Food for Thought: President Obama Remains An Activist, Says How We Get Our Food Makes a BIG Difference on Climate Change

Following a short break after leaving the White House, President Obama returns to his skills as an activist… characteristic with his no-drama style, looks like he’ll work only on really big knobs that make a difference.

From that article by Stephanie Strom of the New York Times: “The former president noted that the Paris agreement focused on damage to the environment from the energy sector, leaving the role of food production largely unaddressed. ‘We are actually seeing a continuing increase in emissions coming out of the agriculture sector,’ he said, ‘and a lot of that has to do with changing diets around the world.’ ”

Turns out food production and food waste are very big knobs indeed. Of the top twenty heavy-hitter climate change solutions, “food” is seven of the top 20 (please click below to explore them…).

As you and I look to save the planet a) changing our personal food habits, b) looking for awesome jobs in the agriculture arena, and c) using our advocacy for any of the below are great, great uses of our personal power.

3rd: Reduced Food Waste (71 gigatons of preventable CO2 pollution). Stop throwing out up to 40% of all food produced worldwide!)

(As far as I know, Drawdown’s new book (buy it, it’s cool as hell) and web site are the first attempt from a team of scientists and economists to “score” all possible global warming solutions: Rank those numbers to determine which solutions are trivial and which are heavy-hitters. This allows us to focus on “big stuff which truly matters,” and perhaps avoid getting off on less-important tangents.)